(This is a must read)

* It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
* It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary.
* When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
* The Alchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purified the metals. They spent so much time close to the fire that gradually they gave up the vanities of the world. They discovered that the purification of the metals led to a purification of themselves.
* Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.
* Wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find your treasure.
* When you possess great treasures within you, and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.
* Your eyes show the strength of your soul.
* Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives.
* That's what Alchemists do. They show that when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.

We're all going to die. It's not the dying that ends up bothering you, it's the living. The regrets, the unfinished business, the unfulfilled dreams, the lost relationships, the inability to forgive. These are things that haunt you on your death bed. These, and wondering where the hell all those socks went.

Dying is not all its cracked up to be. Its been 7 years since I almost bit the bullet, kicked the bucket, crossed over, passed on, bought the farm, died. You joke about it until it stares you in the face. Then it's not so funny. You come face to face with that last second. Here one minute, gone the next. I sometimes wonder how things would have been had I died. Would my wife remarry? She surely couldn't find anyone as nice as me. You come to a realization that things would have gone on without you. The most you can muster up is you hope you would be remembered. Your only shot at immortality-to be remembered. But for what?

The alchemists quest is to turn base metals, i.e. lead, into precious metals, i.e, gold and silver. In a modern day variation, my quest has been to turn dog poop into gold. But I'd settle for silver. Having owned up to as many as three dogs at one time, I've had plenty of material to work with. About as good as I've done so far is getting the trashman to yell when I put the poop out with my other trash. When he squishes it all together, I can hear him cussing two blocks away. Come to think of it, that is sort of a "golden" moment.

Campbell was a professor and the worlds leading authority on mythology and comparative religion.

-Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

-Hell is life drying up.

-There is no security in following the call to adventure.

-You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

-We are all Christ's and don't realize it.

-We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

-What is your religion telling you? How to be a Catholic? A Jew? Or how to be a human being?

-Marriage is not a love affair, it's an ordeal. It is a religious exercise, a sacrament, the grace of participating in another life.

-If you follow your bliss, you will always have your bliss, money or not. If you follow money, you may lose it, and you will have nothing.

-The Kingdom of the Father is not going to come through expectation. We bring it about in our own hearts.

-You cannot make an omelet without breaking eggs.